EP0615739A1 - Dispositif pour orienter des corps et des couvercles de capsules en gélatine dure - Google Patents

Dispositif pour orienter des corps et des couvercles de capsules en gélatine dure Download PDF

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EP0615739A1
EP0615739A1 EP94101529A EP94101529A EP0615739A1 EP 0615739 A1 EP0615739 A1 EP 0615739A1 EP 94101529 A EP94101529 A EP 94101529A EP 94101529 A EP94101529 A EP 94101529A EP 0615739 A1 EP0615739 A1 EP 0615739A1
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Angiolino Ribani
Aristide Cane
Nerio Mirri
Marco Marescalchi
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    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J3/00—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
    • A61J3/07—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
    • A61J3/071—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use into the form of telescopically engaged two-piece capsules
    • A61J3/074—Filling capsules; Related operations
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to a device for orientating the bases and caps of hard gelatin capsules and for feeding these initially separate enclosing elements to a machine for pre-sealing or for filling and sealing the capsules.
  • the device according to the invention can be used with hard gelatin capsules of conventional construction or with capsules of special construction and/or shape, for example those of the SCHERER type.
  • the device according to the invention is intended to solve a problem which is new in the field of capsules for medicinal use, consisting in the fact that the caps and bases of the capsules are initially separated from each other and are kept loose in corresponding magazines, since the two enclosing elements of the capsules, especially in the case of the aforesaid special capsules, undergo different operations, in the process of their manufacture, such that the said enclosing elements cannot be advantageously pre-assembled using the conventional methods.
  • the device according to the invention may therefore be used by the manufacturers of special capsules, to enable them to supply the capsules in pre-sealed form to those industries which will carry out the filling of the said capsules with conventional methods and machines, or may be used in combination with a machine for filling and sealing the capsules, in which the bases and caps of the capsules are fed loose in corresponding magazines.
  • the device will orientate the bases of the capsules with the opening facing upwards and will insert each base into a supporting socket, while the caps will be orientated with the opening downwards and will be inserted into a corresponding supporting socket.
  • the sockets containing the caps are located at a higher level than those containing the bases and are preferably disposed with their axes vertical.
  • the sockets containing the bases and the caps are carried by horizontally movable means by means of which the said sockets may be moved out of alignment with each other to permit the operation of the means of feeding the two separate parts of the capsule to the sockets and/or to permit the insertion of doses of a medicinal product and of any plugs or diaphragms into the bases for any known use, or may be aligned axially with each other to enable the base to be fed to the lower socket, with the empty upper socket into which the cap is subsequently to be inserted passing across it, and/or to initiate the final phase of sealing the capsule, with the raising of the empty or full base, the insertion of the base into the cap which is located above it and is temporarily retained by a suitable check piece and with the final raising and lateral expulsion of the sealed capsule.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide a device for orientating and feeding the bases and caps of the capsules which is of simplified construction and high technological reliability, and may be combined with a high-output enclosing machine of the carousel type.
  • the bases and caps are fed one at a time to a corresponding vertical seat which contains them with a certain amount of play, and in which they may be orientated with the opening upwards or downwards.
  • This seat is disposed in the intermediate part of a horizontal channel, the section of which up-line from the said seat is engaged slidably by an orientating pusher with a point facing the aforesaid seat.
  • the section of the said horizontal channel disposed downline from the seat has a width slightly less than that of the outer area of greater width of the cap or base, so that, when the said pusher operates and its point acts on the intermediate part of the base or cap, the rounded end of the component, which has a greater resistance to crushing, encounters a greater sliding friction in the channel, so that, under the action of the point of the pusher, the base or cap of the capsule is orientated with the opening forward and in this condition reaches the terminal part of the orientation channel, with a substantially horizontal disposition.
  • This channel follows a second vertical and ascending channel, whose width is equal to that of the first channel and which terminates in a suitably wider lower section.
  • a second pusher comes into operation and, in the case of the base, acts on it with a flat and horizontal or suitably inclined end, so that the base reaches the wider terminal part of the ascending channel where it is picked up by suction by its rounded end and inserted into the corresponding supporting socket, with a vertical disposition and with the opening upwards.
  • the second pusher which acts on the caps, is instead provided with a point which acts on the intermediate part of the said cap and causes its open end to rotate downwards.
  • the cap reaches the wider terminal part of the second channel with a vertical disposition and with its opening downwards, and from here it is picked up by suitable suction means and inserted by them into the supporting socket lying below.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide the part of the device which orientates the caps with means which stop the cap at different levels in the first seat of the device, according to the orientation in which the cap reaches the said seat, so that the cap is always correctly disposed with respect to the point of the initial orientation pusher.
  • a further object is to make the said cap stop means adjustable so that it is possible to operate correctly with capsules which are of the same format but may differ slightly in their geometry and/or dimensions.
  • 1 and 2 indicate known types of sockets of a carousel-type enclosing machine, with the sockets 1, for containing the base enclosing elements or bases of the capsules, disposed below the sockets 2 for containing the covering enclosing elements or caps of the capsules, at least one of the said sockets, for example the lower socket 1, being supported by known means 101 which, when so commanded, can move it from the condition of axial alignment with the upper socket to a position of non-alignment, usually in order to align the base with a mechanism for introducing a dose of medicinal product into it.
  • known means 101 which, when so commanded, can move it from the condition of axial alignment with the upper socket to a position of non-alignment, usually in order to align the base with a mechanism for introducing a dose of medicinal product into it.
  • the device according to the invention for orientating and feeding the bases and caps of the capsules to the sockets 1 and 2 may be disposed in any convenient way to interact with the said sockets of a carousel-type enclosing machine, to provide a high output of the said enclosing machine.
  • the device in question may be fixed and the enclosing machine may be positioned in relation to it with intermittent movements, or it may be mounted on carousels with the axes parallel to those of the enclosing carousel, or it may be mounted on one or more carousels coaxial with the said enclosing carousel, to enable the latter to operate with continuous movement and consequently with a high output.
  • the bases 3 of the capsules are disposed loosely in a magazine, not illustrated, into the base of which there enters and is moved cyclically with an intermittent axial motion, as indicated by the arrow 4, a tube 5 whose internal diameter is slightly greater than the maximum external diameter of the bases, so that the bases enter the tube in single file, in axial alignment and in random orientation.
  • a lateral aperture 6 which allows a stop 7, pivoted for example at 8 to the tube, to act on the lower part of the file of bases disposed in the tube, to retain them during the phase in which the tube is raised.
  • the stop 7 is, for example, held in the blocking position by an elastic means which is not illustrated, and is, for example, provided with an extension 107 which, during the phase of lowering of the tube 5, interacts with a projection 9 which opens the stop with the consequent fall of the lowest base 3 from the tube 5 into a vertical seat 10 formed in a body 11, provided with a flared profile 110 at the top, and capable of containing the base with a small amount of play.
  • elastic means which is not illustrated, and is, for example, provided with an extension 107 which, during the phase of lowering of the tube 5, interacts with a projection 9 which opens the stop with the consequent fall of the lowest base 3 from the tube 5 into a vertical seat 10 formed in a body 11, provided with a flared profile 110 at the top, and capable of containing the base with a small amount of play.
  • the base 3 stops with its lower end bearing on the flat base of the said seat which is formed with a symmetrical disposition in the intermediate part of a horizontal channel 12, whose base coincides with that of the said seat and whose lateral walls are parallel to each other.
  • the section of channel 112 disposed upline from the seat 10 has a width less than that of the said seat, and a pusher 13 is guided and slides longitudinally in this section, and is provided with a point 113 in the median part of the end facing the said seat 10, the said point being perpendicular to the seat 10, and having a suitably blunted terminal part 14 and having upper and lower surfaces 15 and 115 which are flat and mutually angularly equidistant with respect to the horizontal line passing through the said end 14 of the point.
  • the front surfaces 16 and 116 of the pusher are disposed at 90° with respect to the said surfaces 15 and 115, or are shaped in another suitable way to provide a controlled displacement of the base (see below).
  • the length of the point 113 is, for example, equal to or slightly greater than half the length of the base 3.
  • the pusher 13 may be activated with a reciprocating movement, as indicated by the arrow 17, by the same means which cyclically raise and lower the tube 5, for example by rods connected to an angled lever 18, pivoted at 19, and which is made to oscillate about the said pivot by suitable means (Fig. 1).
  • the part 212 of the channel 12 disposed downline from the seat 10 has a width only slightly less than the external width of the base 3 or of any wider area of the base, for example, by an amount of the order of a few hundredths or one or a few tenths of a millimetre, in accordance with the dimensions and/or the characteristics of the bases.
  • the base of the channel section 212 is also aligned with the base of the seat 10 and with the base of the channel section 112.
  • the channel section 212 communicates with the end of a vertical channel 312 of equal width, facing downwards, also formed in the body 11 and terminating below in a wider section 20.
  • a flat pusher 21 is fixed to one side of the tube 5, and has a horizontal or suitably inclined lower edge 121 which has to be able to slide in the aforesaid vertical channel section 312, passing from the idle position indicated in Figure 1 with broken lines, where the said pusher is raised and is outside the channel 212-312, to the lowered position in which the said pusher is engaged in the channel 312 and its lower end 121 enters the wider area 20 of the said channel.
  • the said socket In the phase of feeding a base 3 to a socket 1 of the enclosing machine (see Figs 1 and 2), the said socket is axially aligned and close to the upper socket 2 which is empty and is in turn close to the innermost part of the wider end 20 of the descending channel 312, while a pick-up device 22 of a known type, associated with the enclosing machine and connected to a suction source, is disposed under the socket 1.
  • a base 3 enters by gravity into the seat 10 in which it may be orientated with the rounded end upwards or downwards, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 respectively.
  • the pusher 13 is displaced towards the right in Figures 1 and 2, to pass from the position indicated with solid lines to that indicated with broken lines.
  • the end 14 of the point 113 of the pusher acts approximately on the intermediate part of the base 3 disposed in the seat 10 and pushes the base into the channel section 212.
  • the base 3 encounters greater friction with its lateral part nearer its closed end, since the other end section nearer the opening is more flexible and deformable because it is open. Consequently, during the displacement by the point 113, the base 3 enters the channel section 212 while rotating about its closed end, so that, regardless of the initial orientation of the base, it enters and slides in the channel 212 while becoming orientated with its open end forwards and becoming disposed under or above the point 113, depending on whether the closed end of the base faces upwards or downwards.
  • the rounded end of the base bears against the front surfaces 16 - 116 of the pusher which thus displaces the base in the channel 212.
  • the base 3 remains, by the effect of friction, in the next area of the channels 212-312 in a substantially horizontal position.
  • the pusher 21 descends and with its lower horizontal end 121 pushes downwards the previously orientated base, which enters the wider terminal part 20 of the ascending channel 312 with its closed end above the empty socket 2, through which the effects of the suction exerted by the pick-up device 22 are manifested.
  • the rounded end of the cap is immediately sucked into the socket 2 and the base 3 passes easily through the said socket, which is wider, and is stopped in the lower socket 1 with a vertical disposition and with its open end facing upwards, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 in broken lines.
  • the pusher 21 subsequently returns to the high position and the cycle described above is repeated with another pair of empty sockets 1 and 2, while the pair of sockets mentioned previously, with the base 3 in the lower socket, are moved so that they interact, or are caused to interact, with the device for orientating and feeding the caps 23 of the capsules, which will now be described with reference to Figures 4, 5 and 6.
  • the device comprises a magazine (not illustrated) which contains the caps 23 in a loose arrangement and into which there enters from below a vertical tube 25 which is movable in an axially reciprocating way as indicated by the arrow 24 and has an internal diameter such that it holds the caps 23 in single file, in axial alignment and in random orientation.
  • the caps are retained in the tube by a bottom stop device 27, which passes through a lateral opening 26 in the lower part of the said tube and which is withdrawn and opened only at the moment in which the lower end of the tube is brought up to the tapered top 128 of a vertical seat 28, of circular section, whose shape and dimensions are such that they hold a cap 23 in a vertical disposition and in the same orientation as that in which it left the said tube.
  • the seat 28 (see Figure 6) is formed in a body 111 and is disposed symmetrically in the intermediate part of a horizontal channel 29, whose section 129 has a width less than the diameter of the seat 28 and in which a pusher 31, provided with a point 131 facing the said seat 28, slides and is longitudinally guided with reciprocating displacement as shown by the arrow 30, in phase with the displacement of the tube 25.
  • the end 32 of the point 131 is suitably blunted, while the lower flat surface 33 of the point is substantially horizontal and the upper flat surface 34 is inclined by a few degrees with respect to the subjacent surface.
  • the end surfaces 35 and 36 of the pusher 31 are perpendicular to the aforesaid surfaces 33 and 34 or are otherwise conveniently shaped to provide a controlled displacement of the caps 23 (see below).
  • the part 229 of the channel 29, disposed downline from the seat 28, has a width slightly less than the external diameter of the cap 23 or of the wider external area of the said cap, as described above for the bases.
  • the cap 23 Following the displacement of the point of the pusher towards the right with respect to Figure 7, the cap 23 would be pushed into the channel section 229 in Figure 4, where the equatorial zone 123 of its closed and rounded end would encounter the greater resistance, so that the cap would tend to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the opposing areas of greater friction, with consequent orientation of the opening of the cap in the direction of displacement of the pusher.
  • the equatorial zone 123 of the said cap would be at a short distance from the trajectory of displacement of the point 131 and immediately below the said trajectory, so that in the phase of the operation of the pusher 31 the cap disposed in this way would be crushed or orientated with its opening in a direction opposed to the direction of displacement of the pusher, or would be oriented in a random way.
  • the horizontal arrow 131 indicates schematically the trajectory of displacement of the point of the pusher 31, which in the case of Figure 8 touches the cap at a point sufficiently far from and higher than the equatorial zone 123 of the said cap, with the consequent downward rotation of the said cap during the displacement in the channel section 229, with its opening orientated forwards and with the point 131 disposed in the lower part as illustrated in Figure 4 in broken lines.
  • the point 131 of the pusher 31 touches the cap at a point sufficiently far from and lower than the equatorial zone 123 of the said cap, so that the said cap enters the channel section 229 while rotating upwards, becoming disposed above the said point 131, as illustrated in broken lines in Figure 5, and becoming orientated with its opening forwards, as in the preceding case.
  • the aforesaid supports 37 and 137 may be made adjustable with respect to their projection and/or height within the seat 28, as indicated schematically in Figures 6, 8, and 9 by the arrows 38 and 138, to provide maximum reliability and security of operation of the device.
  • the cap 23 is located in the area where the horizontal channel section 229 joins a vertical descending channel section 329, of equal width, and having at least a wider terminal section 42.
  • the descending channel 329 may preferably be provided with a band 43 close to the outer longitudinal edge, and having the same width as the aforesaid terminal section 42.
  • a flat pusher 44 is made integral with the tube 25, faces downwards, and has a pointed lower end 144 whose side facing the inner side of the channel 329 partially reproduces the profile of a cap 23 with a vertical disposition, as indicated by 45.
  • the pusher 44 is above and outside the channel 329, as illustrated in broken lines in Figures 4 and 5.
  • the pusher 44 is inside the channel 329 and its point enters the wider area 42, as illustrated in solid lines in Figures 4 and 5.
  • the socket 2 of the enclosing machine is brought below and close to the channel 329, in alignment with the said channel, as illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, while the socket 1 with the base 3 has been previously brought out of alignment and conveniently removed from the socket above it, so that an axially hollow rod 46 connected to a suction circuit may be inserted axially from below into the said socket 2, with its upper end entering the wider terminal part 42 of the said channel 329.
  • socket 1 While the socket 1 is in the non-aligned position illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, it is possible to insert into the base 3, disposed in the said socket, no product at all, as illustrated in Figure 14, or one or more doses of medicinal product 47 in succession as in Figure 15, or the said doses of product 47 and a plug 48 as in Figure 16, or the doses of product 47, the plug 48 and a further dose of product 49 as in Figure 17.
  • the lower socket 1 with the cap 3 is re-aligned with the upper socket 2 with the cap 23 and, as illustrated in Figure 11, a check piece 50 is positioned on the cap to prevent its axial displacement, while a rod 46 is inserted in the lower socket and raises the base 3, inserting its upper end into the cap 23 and pre-sealing or sealing the capsule, as illustrated in Figure 12 and in the various suggested forms shown in Figures 14, 15, 16, and 17.
  • the rod 46 then continues to rise, as shown in Figure 13, with an equal displacement or removal of the check piece 50, to extract the sealed capsule from the sockets 1 and 2 and subsequently to expel the said capsule towards collecting means disposed outside the enclosing machine, with the additional aid of an air jet schematically indicated by the arrows 51.

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